The worst thing about Google Maps: they should fix it now

Google Maps has really revolutionized our lives and the way we move around a city we don’t know or even our own if we don’t know it at all. Something that of course we appreciate, because surely you too would have been lost in some case if you did not have this app with us. However, this does not eliminate the possibility that there are certain aspects that we do not like about the app and that should be improved beyond the problems that the app can cause.

Especially with the arrival of new implementations, such as the hours of the different businesses that are on Google Maps or with the advancement of technology, there are aspects that are intuited as scarce when asking this app a little more. and we tell you, what should improve.

The worst thing about Google Maps

The arrow sometimes misses

One of the great assets that we find in Google Maps is the ability that it gives us to be able to easily find our way around the city and know where we have to go at all times. To do this, the arrow that indicates where we have to go will be our best companion. Unless…it constantly fails . A compass that, rather than pointing us in the right direction, drives us crazy.

Google Maps

And it is that on many occasions, this arrow that continuously indicates where we have to go, may fail, with the consequent loss of time that this can entail if we are in a hurry. These errors can be due to readjustments or problems in the tool that determines our position, which can take a while to take our position. Therefore, if you see that the arrow is pointing where it shouldn’t or you think it’s not going well, the best thing you can do is stop and wait for it to reset correctly.

The schedules are the pending subject

Here lies what is to this day, the ‘error’ that has caused the most problems and headaches for different users: the schedules. Whether they are from different shops or from public transport, they make users waste time when it comes to trusting what they put on Google Maps.

When we have some kind of problem with the different business hours, there we can easily try to correct the problems we have with each hour. In this way, all we will have to do is go to the specific business that is giving us problems with the schedules and once on its Maps page, click on the schedule and later we will do the same in ‘Suggest a change’ . This will take us to a screen where we can indicate what is happening with this schedule and be able to see the changes; In the same way we can attach a photo with which to reinforce our arguments that it is not right.

Bus Google Maps

In the case of public transport, it is not such a simple matter, since it really does not depend on us. In this case, the problem will lie in the fact that users cannot indicate it to Google, but rather it has to be the City Council or the corresponding company in the city, the one that rectifies and corrects that data. In this way, the only thing we can do is complain on social networks so that the communication team listens to us and the error is corrected.

Visual improvements

The visual aspect not only helps to make the app look more beautiful, but when we talk about maps, it can help us to orient ourselves correctly and to know where we are going based on the monuments or important buildings that we are seeing or that we want to see. In this sense, Google Maps indicates these buildings simply with a drawing on them and here we certainly have to say that the competition does much better at the orientation level.

We are referring to the way in which Apple Maps manages the maps around you. For example, when we are in front of an important building, if we select it that way, it shows it clearly in 3D although with a minimalist design, always depending on the importance of the monument. This will allow us to position ourselves correctly with this monument in order to know where we are going to go once we have seen it or where we have to go to see it correctly.